Seven Basic Management Tools "The Old Seven." "The First Seven." "The Basic Seven." Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality‚ first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa‚ a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.” Start your quality journey by mastering these tools‚ and you ’ll have a name for them too: "indispensable." 1. Cause-and-effect diagram (also called Ishikawa or fishbone chart): Identifies many possible causes for
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Keith Hundley Wednesday‚ 8 July 2013 TOPIC 5000 word essay on the importance of tool control and attention to detail Growing up my Father always loved to have my sister and I participate in home improvement projects. While we were less than joyous to help‚ we always ended up learning something whether it was a new skill or technique to develop our work ethic‚ we were always hands-on. My father’s favorite thing to say at the completion of a successful project was‚ and probably still is‚ “the
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ASSIGNMENT ON PESTLE TOOL [pic] BY SACHIN BABAN SHINDE COURSE- MBA (Hospitality Management) STUDENT DATA NUMBER-713520 Tutor – Don Burton ➢ What is the PESTLE tool? PESTLE stands for Political Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Legal and Environmental factors. PESTLE is to find out the businesses current position of any organisation in their external environment. PESTLE can be used as a basis for further planning and strategic management. Kotler (1998) “claims that PEST
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Management and Planning Tools MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING TOOLS WHY ‚WHY AFFINITY DIAGRAM INTERRELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM PRIORITIZATION MATRICES NOMINAL GROUP TECHNIQUE FORCED FIELD ANALYSIS TREE DIAGRAM PROCESS DECISION PROGRAM CHART MATRIX DIAGRAM ACTIVITY NETWORK DIAGRAM Management & Planning tools While most leaders recognize the value of good planning‚ most lack the experience and methods to do it systematically. As a result‚ group planning efforts are often frustrating‚ generating plans
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7 Quality Tools Cause-Effect Diagrams Flow Charts The 7 Quality Tools for Process Improvements Pareto Chart Where did the Basic Seven come from? Kaoru Ishikawa • Known for “Democratizing Statistics” • The Basic Seven Tools made statistical analysis less complicated for the average person • Good Visual Aids make statistical and quality control more comprehendible. What Is a Flowchart? A diagram that uses graphic symbols to depict the nature and flow of the steps in a process
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Case summary Apple Inc. in 2012 Apple and its History Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in California in 1976. Their mission was to introduce an easy to use computer to market‚ which led to a computing revolution and quickly became the industry leader by selling more than 100‚000 Apple IIs in 1980. After IBM entered PC market‚ IBM PCs‚ which used Microsoft’s DOS (OS)‚ gained more market share and became the new standard for the PC industry. At the same time‚ Apple introduced the
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AVAILABLE CASE TOOLS I. SYSTEM FLOWCHART AND ER-DIAGRAM GENERATION TOOL Name of the tool: SMARTDRAW URL: This Software can be downloaded from: http://www.smartdraw.com. This is a paid software‚ but a 30-day free trial for learning can be downloaded. Requirements to use the tool: PC running Windows 95‚ 98 or NT. The latest versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator‚ and about 20MB of free space. What the tool does: Smartdraw is a perfect suite for drawing all kinds of diagrams and
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Peiling Cai February‚ 7th‚ 2013 PHOTOSHOP TOOLS |Tool |Icon |Description | |Zoom |[pic] |The Zoom Tool magnifies / reduces the image view without changing the image data. | |Hand |[pic] |The Hand Tool allows you to navigate an edited image‚ when it is not completely visible in | | | |its
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This report describes four OLAP tools. The four tools that I have chosen for this are: Pentaho – Open Source Tool Cognos Business Objects SpagoBI Pentaho – Open Source Application “The Pentaho BI Project is an open source application software for enterprise reporting‚ analysis‚ dashboard‚ data mining‚ workflow and ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaho). The Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite provides reporting
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StoneTools A stone tool is‚ in the most general sense‚ any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today‚ most stone tools are associated with prehistoric‚ particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies‚ and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history‚ including arrow
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